The student body at one of Europe’s oldest universities denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel as anti-Semitic, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. Leipzig University’s student council voted this month to pass a resolution that “[condemned] the anti-Semitic BDS campaign,” and opposed “anti-Semitic measures such as disinviting Israeli...

Israel on Saturday praised the Turkish parliament’s adoption of a reconciliation agreement reached between Ankara and Jerusalem in June. “Israel welcomes the ratification of the agreement by the Turkish parliament, and anticipates the continued implementation [of the deal], including the [mutual] return of ambassadors,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement hours after...

Japan has lodged a protest with Iran over the detainment of its ambassador to Tehran in April, the Japan Times reported on Sunday. Ambassador Hiroyasu Kobayashi was detained and questioned by Iranian authorities while he and his wife attended a dinner hosted by an Iranian acquaintance on April 28. Alcohol, which is officially banned in Iran,...

A rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed between two houses in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Sunday, prompting the IDF to carry out airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza. The rocket, which was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fell in a residential area beside...

A Palestinian man named Sufian Abdu has been re-arrested for incitement on Thursday, just three days after being released from an Israeli prison after completing a 14-year sentence. Israeli public radio said he was taken back into custody for “waving Hamas flags” and “voicing calls to violence and incitement against Israel.”...

JNS.org – The far left U.S. Green Party marked a significant milestone in the current campaign cycle when CNN broadcast a town hall debate with its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka. It was a chance for the largely obscure party to build upon the momentum...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is kicking off a six nation tour of Latin America on Sunday amid increasing fears of Tehran’s influence over the region. Zarif will begin his visit in Cuba on Sunday, then travel to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela, according to Iranian media. More than 60 Iranian business leaders will...

The United Nations and its associated agencies purchased $91.8 million worth of goods and services from Israel in 2015, twice as much as they spent on Israeli products just two years earlier, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. The UN spent just $45 million on Israeli products in 2013, a figure that increased to $69.8...

The timing of the $400 million payment to Iran for the release of three American hostages “suggests” that the Obama administration was already talking to officials of Iran Air, which delivered the cash home from Geneva, while it was still listed as a terrorist organization, a former Treasury official said on...

A Jewish man wearing religious garb was stabbed by an attacker shouting “Allahu Akhbar” in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday, Agence France-Presse reported. French Chief Rabbi Rene Gutman told AFP that witnesses heard the assailant shout the Arabic phrase as the man was stabbed in the abdomen outside his home....